Vermeer My Dear

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Vemeer tribute -The love letter

thru the keyhole of domestic virtue a woman sits questioning concerned a focussed intimacy of the eternal nature unguarded moments generational & contemporary through the ages

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Gary Radice

Date: 4/3/2021 4:23:00 AM

Ann and I saw this painting at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam a couple of years back. There are many symbols of love in the painting by all accounts. We felt we were prying / almost spying on the woman from a distance through the painted tied up curtain- the words "unguarded moments" from your poem spring to mind here.

Gary Radice
Date: 4/3/2021 7:46:00 AM

..then it's a pearl of a poem Brian.

Brian Strand
Date: 4/3/2021 6:02:00 AM

Just one of the many Vermeer's 'girls ' Gary, although the one with the earring is best known from the film